Vultr vs Akamai (Linode)
Both appear in 3 sections: compute, egress, footprint. Vultr is cheaper on 3 of 4 comparable measures.
Vultr undercuts Linode at most tiers while offering the same specifications. At 1 GB both charge $5 for 1 vCPU and 25 GB. At 2 GB, Vultr is $10 against Linode's $12. At 4 GB, $20 against $24. At 8 GB, $40 against $48. So above the entry tier Vultr is consistently about 17% cheaper for identical hardware. Vultr's other structural advantage is location count: it operates in more cities than Linode, including several where neither DigitalOcean nor Linode has capacity, and it sells bare metal and GPU instances alongside the standard VPS range. Linode's counterweight is Akamai. Since the acquisition it sits inside one of the world's largest edge networks, which matters for workloads that need to be near a CDN or in a region Akamai serves well. Linode's support has a long-standing reputation for technical depth, and its documentation is solid if not quite DigitalOcean's. For most straightforward workloads the honest answer is that Vultr gives you the same machine for less money, and the difference compounds across a fleet. Linode earns its premium where Akamai's network or its support model specifically matters, which is a narrower set of cases than the price difference might suggest.
Compute
All compute →Egress
All egress →Footprint
All footprint →| Metric | Vultr | Akamai (Linode) |
|---|---|---|
| Regionshigher is better | 3320 countries | 3315 countries |
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